Compare and Contrast Essay of Arthur Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms At the midpoint of For Whom the Bell Tolls, I find myself both unable to distinguish this from A Farewell to Arms and reluctant to finish the story at all. The man whose writing I last found to be extraordinary and enlightening became tedious when copied between two different covers and attempted to be passed off as …showed first 75 words of 1185 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…my cynicism would be alleviated had the novels contained more of a variety and cross-section of life; instead of focusing on war and what can be learned from and within death, a new setting and set of characters could do justice to another horror of twentieth century life. In defense of both the author and myself, the difficulty in being a Hemingway scholar is not his lack of information, merely his difficulty in presenting it.